Top 10: this week’s most popular articles

Our top 10 round-up features the most read stories on Pro Sound News Europe in the past seven days.

Topping the bill is our feature about the making of BBC Casualty's single-shot episode to mark 30 years of the hospital drama. We spoke to sound engineer Scott Talbot about how the audio team pulled it off.

Also featuring - not once, but twice - were electro-rockers Depeche Mode with two stories about the kit they took on their world tour. An exclusive article about a new arts centre opening in Hackney (seeking a sound system) proved good news for live venues in London, and the transformation of Abbey Road Studios was once again drawing in the views this week.

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2. Depeche Mode deploy SSL live desks for Global Spirit tour Pioneering electro-rockers Depeche Mode have taken two SSL Logic L500 Plus digital live consoles on the road for their Global Spirit tour, which takes in stadiums and large-scale venues around the world across more than 90 dates.

8. Top five: FX Rentals’ most-requested products since 1992 Audio equipment hire specialist FX Rentals has been open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, since 1992. In this time the company – who jokily refer to themselves as the fourth emergency service – have had their fair share of business. Here are five of their most asked-for products, as told to PSNE.